jonas wrote:I saw the best posts of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through a host of malware....

That's a Pete Townshend reference, right??

Yes. It was in the original libretto to Tommy, but Allen Ginsberg stole it before Townshend could publish.

Ah, a wiseguy, huh? OK, shame on me for not being literate enough to recognize a clever bastardization of Ginsberg when I see it. But in my defense, Pete wrote a rather wordy quasi-narrative that graces the gatefold of his All The Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes LP, which follows a similar theme throughout its self-important thread.

DJMurphy wrote:Ah, a wiseguy, huh? OK, shame on me for not being literate enough to recognize a clever bastardization of Ginsberg when I see it. But in my defense, Pete wrote a rather wordy quasi-narrative that graces the gatefold of his All The Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes LP, which follows a similar theme throughout its self-important thread.

Honestly, I thought you were being funny and I tried to respond in kind. But here's the really funny part: my first response was actually going to be "no, you're confusing it with All the Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes," but I decided it wasn't funny and didn't make sense (in fact, I wasn't even sure why that specific Townshend reference occurred to me). But apparently it did make sense, and I suppose all those hours and hours of listening to that album (and everything else he published, including the crap) must have baked something into my head.

As long as we cool. Yes, I'm slightly embarrassed, but you handled it cleverly. And yes, I think I had the hunch about "North Contry Girl" a little while ago. Pete did it on the Live To Benefit Maryville Academy album, and he followed a totally different arrangement, which led me to look into it and discover that Pete wasn't the first to bring this trad song to more current cultural recognition. But unless you're screwing with me again (a very real possibility), you did see the Chinese Eyes similarity to the Ginsberg quote, too.

That's why we're having this conversation on Glorious Noise; one music geek brotha helping out anotha.

DJMurphy wrote:As long as we cool. Yes, I'm slightly embarrassed, but you handled it cleverly. And yes, I think I had the hunch about "North Contry Girl" a little while ago. Pete did it on the Live To Benefit Maryville Academy album, and he followed a totally different arrangement, which led me to look into it and discover that Pete wasn't the first to bring this trad song to more current cultural recognition. But unless you're screwing with me again (a very real possibility), you did see the Chinese Eyes similarity to the Ginsberg quote, too.

That's why we're having this conversation on Glorious Noise; one music geek brotha helping out anotha.

It's all good, my man.

Well...it would be better if there were more than 3 of us posting here, but I figure that'll work itself out.